Renee Eisner

Renee Eisner
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Title: Renee Eisner
Description:

Caption: "Renee Eisner, 18, a wheelchair patient in the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital [for Chronic Diseases], will have an extra thrill June 25 when she gets a high school diploma at commencement exercises in the hospital auditorium, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road. She will wear a dress that she made herself. Renee was admitted to the hospital in 1948 and took up dressmaking under the direction of Morris Pavloff."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Jun[e] 22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Dressmaking
High school students
Hospital patients
Hospitals
Occupational therapy
Sanatoriums
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOSP 0362